Armchair with Grotesque Reliefs and green cushion, view of seat back carving

Armchair with Grotesque Reliefs

French, Sixteenth Century

Date16th and 19th century

MediumWalnut

Dimensions50 1/2 x 24 7/8 in. (128.3 x 63.2 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.5.87

Collection History

Chabrière-Arlès, Lyon and Paris. Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Furniture in The Frick Collection: Italian and French Renaissance, French 18th and 19th Centuries (Pt. I). Volume V. New York: The Frick Collection, 1992.

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